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* Replication directory for                                   ***
* Prime locations                                             ***
* by Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Thilo N.H. Albers, Kristian Behrens ***
* Published in American Economic Review: Insights             ***
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This folder contains the following subfolders:

BlockData 			Folder containing data at the level of US census block groups 
CLUSTERING			Folder containing 
					a variable indicating whether a grid cell is developable.
					employment by sector and grid cell from the National Economic Time Series (NETS).
					grid-cell output of the C++ clustering algorithm using on establishment-level NETS data.
GIS Data			Folder containing MSA city grids.
HeightGap			Folder containing information on adjusted building heights. 
HistoricMfg			Folder containing information on historic manufacturing shares by MSA.
Housing				Folder containing information on housing data by MSA.
LandUseRegulation		Folder containing information on land use regulation by MSA.
PL_emp20km			Folder containing employment within catchment area by prime location generated in C++ due to computational burden.
Raw Numeric Data		Folder containing data on MSAs and ZCTA attributes (including employment data from County Business Patterns).	
WEIGHTS				Folder containing NETS employment and big data establishment counts within randomly drawn disks for cities in the US MSA
				and Global Cities sample. This data set (created in C++ due to computation requirements) is used to estimate employment 
				weights that are assigned to big data establishments in the Global Cities analysis. 

This folder contains the following data files:

MSA-list.csv			CSV file containing the concordance of CBSA identifier and CBSA name.

References

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